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From little acorns . . . A retrospective on OpenCitations
The initial vision Now that OpenCitations is hosting over one billion freely available scholarly bibliographic citations, this is perhaps an opportune moment to look back to the start of this initiative. A little over eleven years ago, on 24 April … Continue reading
OpenCitations described
OpenCitations is an infrastructure organization for open scholarship dedicated to the publication of open bibliographic and citation data. We at OpenCitations are proud to announce the publication, in the first issue of Quantitative Science Studies, of a canonical paper in … Continue reading
‘Likes’ joins the semantic web: cito:likes
A ‘like’ button is a well-known feature in communication software such as social networking services, Internet forums, news websites and blogs that permits a user to indicate that he/she likes, enjoys or supports certain content. Internet services that feature ‘like’ … Continue reading
Five Stars Ontology
To accompany today’s publication in D-Lib Magazine of the article The Five Stars of Online Journal Articles – a framework for article evaluation highlighted in the previous post, I have today also published The Five Stars Ontology, a simple ontology … Continue reading
Comments on the paper Ceci n’est pas un hamburger
Very VERY occasionally I read a paper that is so well written, and which addressed the points so accurately and so eloquently, that I rejoice. The paper by Pettifer et al. entitled Ceci n’est pas un hamburger: modelling and representing … Continue reading
Like a kid with a new train set! Exploring citation networks
As part of the Open Citations Project, Alex Dutton recently completed a graphing plug-in for the Open Citations web site, that permits users to generate different kinds of graphs of citation networks by querying the Open Citation Corpus for a … Continue reading
How to cite data
As an approach towards developing best practice for data citation, I recently wrote a Data Citation Best Practice Discussion Document that is available on Google Docs, and that I have now slightly revised to Version 2 [1]. In that document, … Continue reading
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